Dr. Thomas Reitz

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Dr. Thomas Reitz
Guest Scientist at the Department of Soil Ecology

Current address:
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences - Crop Research Unit
Julius-Kühn-Straße 23, 06112 Halle
thomas.reitz@landw.uni-halle.de

Thomas Reitz

Tel.:
Email:

+49 341 6025 4409
thomas.reitz@ufz.de


since 2025

Scientific Leader of the Crop Research Unit, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, MLU Halle

2011-2024

Working Group Leader at the Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle

Degrees

2011

Ph.D. in Applied Natural Sciences

Helmholtz-Centre Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Resource Ecology and TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Supervisors: Sonja Selenska-Pobell and Michael Schlömann)
Thesis: "U(VI) bioaccumulation by Paenibacillus sp. JG-TB8 and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius;Au(0) nanoclusters formation on the S-layer of S. acidocaldarius" Link

2006

Diploma in Biology, Major subject: Microbiology, Minor subjects: Genetics and Biotechnology, TU Dresden, Thesis: "Einfluss von Uran auf die Archaea-Diversität in Bodenproben aus der Haberlandhalde"


Research interests

  • Structure and function of microbial communities in soils in the context of global change
  • Adaptation of soil microbial communities to land use and management
  • Role of soil bacteria in terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycles
  • Contribution of the soil microbiome to plant growth as well as to the resistance against abiotic and biotic stressors (drought, heavy metals, pathogens, ...)

Techniques

  • Microbial community analyses using sequencing and fingerprint methods
  • Enzyme analyses in soils
  • Determination of microbial traits
  • Plant stress enzymes and metabolites quantification
  • Spectroscopic methods (FT-IR, XAS, TRLFS)

Main experimental platforms


Publications

2026 (1)

2025 (26)

2024 (7)

2023 (4)

2022 (10)

2021 (12)

2020 (4)

2019 (3)

2018 (4)

2016 (2)

2015 (2)

2014 (2)

2012 (1)

2011 (3)